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November 2017

November 17, 2017

Should I Trust My Conscience?

One of the most common frustrations that I hear from Catholics who are recovering from...

November 07, 2017

The One Question I Always Get

Whenever I do a presentation, there is one old and familiar question that I can...

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Frog Out of Water

I was preparing to give a short talk on gender dysphoria, and was trying to...

August 2017

August 26, 2017

Is Diversity Training to Blame for the Rise of the Alt-Right?

Back when I was in school, one of the routine features of our social sciences...

August 25, 2017

No, Matt Walsh, Parents are Not Making Their Kids Trans

So apparently right-wing Christianity learned its lesson from the complete pastoral debacle of the ex-gay...

August 16, 2017

The Fractal Church: Infallibility Part III

I promised that I would talk about the difference between infallibility and authority, and why...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

He Will Lord It Over You

There is no natural equality of the sexes when it comes to sex.

June 20, 2017

Completely Gratuitous, Unnecessary, Badly Written Gay Content

Every couple of months or so there's a minor panic on Catholic social media about...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

Is American Christianity an Ideology or a Culture?

You actually do have a literal culture war going on where the two most prominent...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

Panic! There’s a Man in the Ladies’ Room

Recently, there's been a story circulating about a man – a guy who is obviously...

March 13, 2017

Pregnancy, Gender Dysphoria, and the Pill

A while back, I posted a link to the talk that I gave about gender...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

The Measure of a Life: In Memory of My Sister

Last week was the 10th anniversary of my sister Kristen's death. I wrote a piece...

December 2016

December 02, 2016

An Immodest Proposal

Rebecca Bratten Weiss has recently written a post about modesty culture. This is an area...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Crucifixion of Desire

Is the only true way to deal with a homosexual inclination to “crucify” it? This...

November 24, 2016

Update on the Books I’m Writing Now

Winter has come to Canada and we're having a run of snow-days. My older kids...

October 2016

October 08, 2016

Pope on a Plane II: Gender Minorities

Yesterday, I talked about the problem with what the Church calls “gender ideology,” that is,...

August 2016

August 10, 2016

You Are What You Read

One of the things that I love about ancient philosophy is that it's often embodied...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

My Gay Albatross: What To Do When Your Kid Comes Out Queer?

I want to touch on a delicate subject, one that I write about frequently in...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

Not The Time Or Place: An Open Letter to Elliot Milco

It was less than 24 hours after the Orlando shooting that I saw the first...

June 07, 2016

Spiritual Gaslighting

Gaslighting is one of those terms that I see cropping up occasionally on the internet,...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

Memento Mori: Zombies in the Collective Unconscious

So I've been binge-watching The Walking Dead recently, and naturally my mind has turned to...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Just How Clear is the Church’s Teaching About Trans People?

One of the comments that I often hear about the Catholic approach to transgender and...

February 15, 2016

John Paul II, Intimate Friendship, and the Fluidity of Philia and Eros

The BBC has an interesting story today on an “intense” friendship between John Paul II...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Sanctioned Bigotry: Let’s All Get Together, Hold Hands, and Form a Circle of Hate

So Austin Ruse has published yet another piece at Crisis about homosexuality. I haven't bothered...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Identities are Forged by Violence

The fundamental problem in the debate over whether Christians can adopt LGBTQ identities is that...

October 28, 2015

Rage Against the Biblical Gender Machine

I recently made the mistake of reading some posts over Biblical Gender Roles. I'm going...

October 26, 2015

Gender Heresy

First Things has recently published and interesting article on the protest against Germaine Greer for...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

Catholicism as a Second Language

When someone converts to Catholicism, they will always bring with them certain habits of thought...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

12 Causes of Gender Dysphoria

Biological factors aren't the only possible causes of gender dysphoria. In fact, I would say...

July 29, 2015

Adam’s Rib: Intro to Theology of the Body Part 4

Now a deep sleep falls on Adam. Consciousness and self-awareness, choice and thought, all are...

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